Being from Europe originally and almost 25 years here at the bottom of Africa, have been visiting back there often, but only flown SAA once or twice, long time ago. Always appear too expensive, as said above. SAA requested recently a R5 billion Gov bailout. Before that, somewhere in April, I can still remember, the plain speaking economist Dawie Roodt commenting on the E tolling saga and the SANRAL debt : " The solution is easy, government must just sell Telkom, SAA and the SABC, so they can can pay off this debt". But this ever more semi communist government with its overarching Big Brother, neurotic Control Freak attitude is very unlikely to consider that.
The comment together with bribery allegations in the Korea media on the KT -Telkom deal debacle was that the ANC considers Telkom as its own property. They like to sit on things and allow it to slowly wither away. Using our hard earned tax money.
